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5 Speaker Overboard Thoughts Under the Fedora, The Stupid Party, Some Working with Dems is More Equal Than Others, The Biden Escape Hatch, Questions and the way to go

Posted: October 4, 2023 by datechguy in politics, under the fedora
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I have no non-work net access at work nor do I own a cell phone so I was planning to write something about the Pope tonight when I instead got word of what went on in the house.

Seriously? With a six vote majority you vote out a speaker who on the whole has exceeded expectations for conservatives despite holding the thinnest of thin majorities?

The GOP is called the stupid party for a reason

One of the objections to Speaker McCarthy was that he made a deal with the Democrats for a continuing resolution to keep government open. A resolution Democrats were so afraid of passing that one of the pulled a fire alarm to keep it from happening.

So because they were so upset at McCarthy for working with Democrats to keep the government funded, those who opposed him worked with the entire Democrat caucus to remove him.

Am I the only one noticing the Irony here?

To me the most frightening part of this is what Glenn Reynolds noted:

Heck, if I’m the Democrats, I vote somebody tolerable as President Pro Tem of the Senate, then have Biden and Kamala both step down. With the Speakership of the House vacant, they could pick a succesor president that easily. If I’m Chuck Schumer, I’m scheming for that right now . . .

As of this moment there is no GOP member in the line of succession. This is the perfect chance for the left to rid themselves of both Biden and Harris. That Gaetz & company didn’t think of this is criminal.

I hate to say it but given the violence we’ve seen from the left if I was Joe Biden or Kamala Harris I’d be scared for my life till a new speaker is in place.

The logical questions that comes from all of this are these:

  1. Who is an acceptable speaker to these eight?
  2. Do the eight have a candidate who would be acceptable to the rest of the party
  3. Would the eight support any candidate that didn’t give them the power to boot him and would any republican in his right mind take the job knowing that these people will boot him if he doesn’t obey?
  4. How long are these people willing to keep the house without a speaker?
  5. Are there any parliamentary tricks that the Democrats can use to get the speakership if the GOP doesn’t have their full membership present to keep them from winning such a vote and if so who on the GOP side are watching for that?
  6. Did they think of any of this stuff before taking this vote

This is pretty much a dog catching a car and not knowing what to do with it, or as Sam Rayburn used to say: “Any old jackass can knock down a barn door, it takes a carpenter to build one.”

Now I’m just a small blogger who has been here for almost 15 years and I’d like a conservative speaker to advance conservative values so let me give a piece of advice to members of the GOP who would like that, particularly the entertaining eight.

If you want to get a strong conservative as speaker elect enough republicans to get a solid majority so that you can put through a conservative speaker

If you don’t elect republicans you don’t get a conservative speaker and if you are not able or willing to go out and find republicans who can win in districts currently held by Democrats and support them to the max then all the bluster about Speaker McCarthy is just BS.

What the Democrat Left is by Kirk

Posted: October 2, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

If you want to understand what the Democrat left has become you can’t do better than this comment at the battleswarm blog on the decline of San Francisco. I reproduce it here in it’s entirety:

They all thought they knew better. They did not.

That’s going to be the epitaph for the United States, and the Democratic Party. Real fact is, they have to produce results people want, or they’re dead, dead, dead. The shakeout from the uniparty displaying its utter incompetence is going to take decades, but… So be it.

I used to work around a guy who was a Democratic Party precinct official. We’d argue politics at lunch with him… He was basically a die-hard Scoop Jackson Democrat, decent hard-working guy who believed in the Democrats the way a Jesuit believes in the Catholic Church.

He kept moving up the ranks, and eventually got sent off to some “leadership conference” back East, early in the first Clinton administration. I have no idea what he saw back there, or experienced, but he came back a changed man. You’d needle him the way we always had about the Democrats and their various corruptions, but after that “leadership conference”, he’d just sit there with an expression of what I can only describe as “rueful acknowledgment”. He gradually separated himself from his party activism, and by the time I last saw him about a year later, he wasn’t even involved any more. I asked him directly, about that time, and I couldn’t get an answer out of him about anything he’d seen or otherwise experienced that had “broken his faith”, but it was obvious that something had transpired. Only thing I could get out of him was something to the effect of “…they’re going to be hunting Democrats through the streets with dogs, one of these days… And, they’re going to be right to do it, too!!!

I have thought a lot about that guy and what he said. I still have no idea what the hell it was that changed his outlook that much, but I’ll say this: Before he left, he was all proud of the fact that he was on the same floor with all the bigwigs attending the conference, the national leaders from the Democratic Party. Something he saw around them? Something he heard? No idea; he’d never say what it was.

And take note the first Clinton Administration was 30 years ago and the left has only gotten worse since then.

Matt Patrica is Laughing his Ass off Right Now

Posted: October 2, 2023 by datechguy in nfl, Sports
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Why

Well it’s not because the Patriots have started 1-3 after all they started 1-3 last year as well so he might chuckle slightly over the lack of improvement I suspect the big laugh comes from this:

Last season after 4 games the Patriots offense Under Matt Patrica & Joe Judge scored 74 points after 4 games (67 on offense) and would score 29 (22 on offense) in game five (W vs Detriot) and 38 in week six (all of offense) vs Cleveland.

This season the new and improved offense minus Matt Patrica under Bill O’Brien has scored 55 points in 4 games (53 on offense).

In short the Matt Patrica offense put up an avg of 16 3/4 points per game after 4 games and would average 17.8 after 5 games.

The Bill O’Brien offense has after four games put up an average of 13 1/4 points per game and to get up to Patrica’s avg after game five will have to up up 36 points next week.

Given this team has yet to break 20 points in a game so far that will be a neat trick.

Now of course it is only week four and it might be that Bill O’Brian & the offense will have their “eureka!” moment in the near future making everything change.

But if that doesn’t happen a whole lot of New Englanders (particularly on the radio) owe Matt a big apology.

Kennedy Running as an Independent Will Make Things Interesting

Posted: September 30, 2023 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, politics
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The good news for the Democrat/Left is that they have solved one potential problem:

2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce he will run as an independent on October 9 in Pennsylvania, Mediaite has learned.

Kennedy’s campaign machine is now planning “attack ads” against the Democratic National Committee in order to “pave the way” for his announcement in Philadelphia about running as an independent, according to a text reviewed by Mediaite.

“Bobby feels that the DNC is changing the rules to exclude his candidacy so an independent run is the only way to go,” a Kennedy campaign insider told Mediaite.

The Democrat/Left decided that they could not risk a competitive primary where Democrat voters would have a choice not named Joe Biden, particularly when that choice is not owned by the deep state.

But now while Democrats don’t have THAT problem what they DO have to worry about is how this will change things in a general election.

Frankly a Kennedy nomination worried me because if nominated by the Democrats he would, in my opinion trounce Trump and give a DeSantis a run for his money because of his anti-establishment positions while still holding solidly liberal positions

Democrat voters who lost jobs because of the Fauci vaccine business in the last three years weren’t likely to be voting for Trump who helped give Fauci the national credibility that allowed him these things, but they ARE likely to cast a vote for Kennedy in a general election.

What happens if they do so in great numbers in Wisconsin?, Michigan? Arizona? Minnesota? New Hampshire? Maine? Virginia? Georgia?

The left might sow the whirlwind by these actions but there is one other side to this story that is mentioned at PJ media:

If RFK Jr. goes through with his plans, and he’s not suicided Epstein-style in the process, this will very probably be the death knell for Brandon’s re-election prospects, which were on thin ice as it was.

emphasis mine

If there really any person out there who doesn’t believe the deep state democrat left wouldn’t kill Kennedy in a minute if it put them at risk? (Remember there has already been one incident).

I submit and suggest that anyone who doesn’t admit this is deluding themselves.

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